Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-20
CRY COUNCIL.
Official Proceedings of the MOnda,
Evenings Meeting.

rejected both after consulting with both
bidders and no being able to make salts
factory arrangements with either of them
we made o contract privately with MIR.
Geo. Donnigan for said work at eight 80
cents per loot. The contract with SAID
Donnigan is herewith submitted.
JACOB BRANCH.
j. q. MoVAY.
Committee on water works.
The committee on ordinances made
the following report which on motion
was adopted and report ordered to be
printed at length in the report Of the
proceedings OF this meeting:
A PETITION.
70 the City Council: Your Commit
tee on Ordinances, to whom was referred
the following petition, namely:
To the Honorable, the City Council,
YSnkton, D.. II: The undersigned,
officers and members of the Woman
Christian Temperance Union, most earn
estly and respectfully petition your
Honorable Body 30 enact such an ordi.
nance as may be necessary and effeetual,
to suppress the existence of all houses
OF prostitution in our city.
ISignedl
Mrs. f NJ swift, President; Mrs. @ E
Dunlap, Wise Pre'st; Mrs. NJ e Karr,
I'd Vice PFes't; Mrs. E j Anderson, Sd
Y. pres't; Mrs. w 81 Monroe, 18th v,
prea't; Mrs. j M King, secretary; Mrs
Nj u Sargent, treasurer; Fannie A Van
Velsor, Mrs. j Martin, Mrs r 8 Pierson,
A q Howard, Mrs. O E Hager, Helen
Kirkwood, Mrs. u G. Smith Miss Martha
Case, Mrs. j r Sanborn, Mrs. Malcome
Walker. Mrs. M Ooney, Mrs. r Van
fOstrand, Mrs. Foskett, Mrs. WV Murphy
Mrs. w "a Gould, Mrs. d F Etter, Mrs,
John T Shaw. Mrs. Chas. Lofaer, Mrs.,
% Miner Mrs, John Bremner, Mrs. A w
Howard, Mrs. d N Gross, Miss A N
Smith, Mrs. A u Seaman, Mrs. A
Kincel, Mrs w 8 Bowen, Mrs. 6 A
Reyes. Helen M Buchanan, Mrs. FL W
Pike, MRS. w A BurleIgh, Miss Faux,
Martha j Brush, Mrs. s Il Stubbs, Mrs.
a F Bartlett, Fannie 3 Wilcox, Sarah +
Ward, Mrs. q A Roberts, Mrs. Matilda
Brookings, Mrs. u j Harris, Mrs. Sarah
II Ward. Mrs. I'll u CLARK, Mrs. A Delano,
Mrs. Il Grebe, Mrs. @ Wright, Mrs. M
II DeCamp Mrs. q u Bancroft. Mrs. A A
Wilcox, Mrs. II j McVay, Mrs. Sarah
A MoYay, Mrs. M e Peel, Mrs. 81 A Nc
Cormick. Mrs. e ] Porter, Mrs. NJ A
Tyler. Mrs. NJ e Woolley. Mrs. i E
Eldridgei Mrs. q IL Carney, Mrs. ]
Campbell, Mrs, q j. Fletcher, Mrs
Ida Farg, Mrs. Q I'll Bates
Mrs. LID Feiber, Mrs. j. AL Gays
Mrs. b 8 Williams, Mrs. Nettie Russell
Mrs ~ DeWett, Mrs w b Valentine
Allie q Tyler, Susan Stubbs, Mrs
b O Madole, Flora j Anderson, Mrs {
y wright. Lave carefully and earnestly
considered said petition, and would
respectfully report b same back to the
|: eouneil, With d views end conclusions
as follows:
The high and womanly character oil
the petition, and the nature OF the sub
ject embraced therein, have enlisted ar
l earnest enthusiasm on the part OF YOU
I committee, to recommend to the counci
| all needed Legislation and action on the
/ part of the officers of the city in aid OF
4 reform, morality and the good goven
mems OF the city OF Yanton.
1 While morality is advancing in many
ways, and communities are being cleans
ed and purified by modern efforts, bott
|! at reform and by its proper ally, legisla.
ton; while vice and wr~etchedness o
many sorts are fast fleeing before thu
earnest efforts of eager men and womer
of ell classes, there is yet one direction
in which efforts at reform have rot beef
made oo-existent with many other grant
movements toward the betterment ane
I elevation OF the human race.
That direction towards which reform
has not been extended, and where phil
anthopic efforts towards the p~uriicafiol
of local society, have been found want.
ing, Id in the destruction of prostitution
and the possible moral nnlifting Of .hs
keepers and inmstes of such dens OF vice
from che depths of vice and infamy te
which they have sunk.
If there be one GLASS OF unfortunat,
human beings in the opinion Of Won,
committee, who Are really in need OF the
charity, the sympathy, the earnest ale
OF all honest, virtuous and moral persons
it is those unfortunate girls ana womer
who fall victims to vice and becom,
keepers and inmates Of houses pf pros
titutioa.
In an unRuarded moment-at an i'm
mature age, many times without an ad
visor or protector, girls and women fal
victims to lust. Deceived, perhaps. BIZ
their trust in manly honor, OF be j
through their own weakness, they tab,
the fatal step. Are they weaker. ar,
they more criminal. or are they NOR.
unfortunate than those of the 30 called
stronger seq, who fall victims to weak
nesses and allurements Of an hundred
kinds? Are they more TO be oondemne,
or less to be pitied?
These questions present themselye
to the cheritahle considerations OF al
pure men and women.
The answer is obvious. When this stel